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Debate on bill on Monday, 26 January 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw. The answering member was Dominic Grieve.

Coroners and Justice Bill

Coroners and Justice Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment negatived on division (47 votes to 278). Second reading agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and Means resolution agreed to on division (233 votes to 97).

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Reference
487 c26-125,129-31 
Session
2008-09
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Jack Straw | 487 c27 (15-6MC) (Link to this contribution) No, it is not that, but I am pleased that the hon. and learned Gentleman welcomes this appointment. ...
Speaker | 487 c26 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Liberal Democrats.
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Dominic Grieve | 487 c27 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for his kind words of welcome. Conservative Members we...
Jack Straw | 487 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The measures in the Bill are designed furth...
Jack Straw | 487 c28 (Link to this contribution) I am just about to come to the Bill's provisions on the special certification procedure. I fully und...
Jack Straw | 487 c28 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern, but the reason why successive Governments have resisted a...
Jack Straw | 487 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I have thought about the matter a lot during the Bill's drafting. I fully accept that there is much ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c30 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that this is an area of some difficulty, but I am sure that the Secretary of State will...
Jack Straw | 487 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) If there is a better way, let us see it. I am not unsympathetic to the hon. and learned Gentleman's ...
Jack Straw | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor).
Jack Straw | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly take account of what my hon. Friend has said, but there are differences and I thin...
David Leslie Taylor | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. In the face of much Government opposition, the other place d...
John Bercow | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) The creation of the offence of homophobic hate crime—courtesy of the Criminal Justice and Immigratio...
Jack Straw | 487 c37 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a little progress. The offence of inciting hatred on the grounds of sexual or...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c37 (Link to this contribution) The one thing the Secretary of State has not told the House is why he thinks the proposed saving cla...
Paul Beresford | 487 c37 (Link to this contribution) Clauses 52 and 53 relate to images used by paedophiles for their own excitement and for incitement. ...
Jack Straw | 487 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) We seek all the time to ensure that what this House and the public regard as obscene, objectionable ...
Jack Straw | 487 c39 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a little progress first. The Gage working group rejected the introduction of a...
Jack Straw | 487 c39 (Link to this contribution) Those arrangements would continue and we are, of course, open to suggestions about how they should b...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c39 (Link to this contribution) The matter that the Secretary of State glosses over is that it is the intention, in setting up this ...
Alun Michael | 487 c39 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we examine what affects the public and not just what affects lawyers. Does my r...
Jack Straw | 487 c40 (Link to this contribution) The numbers are few and far between in our judgment. We increased the money—£40 million—available to...
Jack Straw | 487 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, that will not write the cheques. In individual departmental areas, the Opposition call for mor...
Jack Straw | 487 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of proper debate, I am about to finish my remarks. The safeguards in the Bill will...
Robert Goodwill | 487 c41 (Link to this contribution) Although I recognise that the measure addresses the specific point of a person who is given a prison...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c43 (Link to this contribution) The Bill's title suggests that it deals with matters that might command cross-party support. As the ...
David Heath | 487 c43 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Jack Straw | 487 c31 (Link to this contribution) I will of course give way in a moment, but, if the House will allow me, I want to make a little prog...
Jack Straw | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is correct. That is the problem and it explains why we run into the difficultie...
George Howarth | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) spoke earlier about instances where the jury is remove...
Chris Mullin | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) How satisfied is my right hon. Friend that if the secrecy option had been available in the de Meneze...
Jack Straw | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) First, the number of such inquests would be very limited indeed—probably one or two a year, if that....
Anne Snelgrove | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend moves on, will he give way?
Jack Straw | 487 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend does not mind, I need to make progress because this is quite a significant Bill. ...
Emily Thornberry | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Anne Snelgrove | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise a point about the way that coroners have dealt with incidences of domestic violence ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way, before he moves on to discuss assisted suicide?
Jack Straw | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I am afraid that I must make progress, if my hon. Friends will allow me. I will give...
Paul Truswell | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Bob Spink | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman ensure that the use of diminished responsibility in relation to murder...
Jack Straw | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry), ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and I have to say that he has moved over th...
Jack Straw | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to make some progress? The Bill also completes unfinished business...
Jack Straw | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I take note of that. Both the Law Commission and an independent review identified confusion about t...
Emily Thornberry | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my right hon. Friend will know that many Members on both sides of the House are fully sens...
David Heath | 487 c43 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way, and I welcome him back to his a...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. We are clearly going to have to make common cause with his...
Jack Straw | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) As I have said before, the hon. and learned Gentleman does his case no good by parodying what is in ...
Speaker | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am anxious not to curtail debate this afternoon, because these are complex matters, but I a...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State intervenes, let me point out that I am not saying that the Government ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c43 (Link to this contribution) I will in just a moment. It beggars belief that the Government should be seeking a draconian transf...
John Bercow | 487 c53 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. and learned Friend knows, I yield to none in my admiration for his parliamentary and othe...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c53 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not agree with my hon. Friend that the amendment was intended as a wrecking am...
Speaker | 487 c54 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has selected the Liberal Democrat amendment.
Alun Michael | 487 c54-6 (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the Justice Select Committee, which has considered many of these issues. I am sure ...
Jenny Willott | 487 c56 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman share my concern about not only what data are shared, but their integr...
Joan Humble | 487 c52 (Link to this contribution) If I heard the hon. and learned Gentleman correctly, he said that individuals wrote to Blackpool cou...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I understand well enough that the Government have considerable difficulties, because prison places w...
Jack Straw | 487 c48 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I will now. Just so that we are clear, is the hon. and learned Gentleman saying that a...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c52 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the intention to revert to the matter meant coming back with some other proposal that...
Jack Straw | 487 c50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. and learned Gentleman's recognition that there is a problem, and that the...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) There is evidence that has to be kept from coroners' juries at the moment, but in almost all cases—I...
Lord Garnier | 487 c48 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman spoke for an hour, but did not make himself clear.
Jenny Willott | 487 c45 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. and learned Gentleman share my concern at how the Government are presenting their case...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c45-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree entirely, and that is characteristic of the Government. It is just like identity cards,...
Jack Straw | 487 c47 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman. His suggestion that the proposal is driven by a des...
Jack Straw | 487 c57 (Link to this contribution) We endeavoured to reflect exactly what my right hon. Friend is seeking in clause 102(11), which stat...
Alun Michael | 487 c58 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right. I look forward to discussing these issues with him in the Public ...
Robert Goodwill | 487 c58 (Link to this contribution) I recently visited a very good example of community sentencing at the Oriel cricket ground in Scarbo...
David Howarth | 487 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) That would appear to be possible, because of the power to allow any person to share any data despite...
Emily Thornberry | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman's fears be somewhat allayed if there were an express restriction in the Bil...
David Howarth | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) That would help a little, but I think that it is already implied in any legislation. The circumstanc...
David Howarth | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman is saying that a court might say that on judicial review, he is whistlin...
Angus Robertson | 487 c27 (Link to this contribution) On overseas military deaths, the Secretary of State will be aware that there is currently no provisi...
Paul Farrelly | 487 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) On the deaths of service personnel, I share with many Members concern about the resurrection of priv...
Jack Straw | 487 c27 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am happy to confirm that to the hon. Gentleman.
James Gray | 487 c28 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that one aspect of military inquests about which bereaved families...
Jeremy Corbyn | 487 c28 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State must be well aware of the hurt caused to families when there is an inquest on...
Jack Straw | 487 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) We are happy to think about it, but as I have said, there are some complexities. We must also consid...
David Howarth | 487 c31 (Link to this contribution) The Bill does two different things. First, it removes the jury; secondly, it provides for an inquest...
Jack Straw | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow).
Jack Straw | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) A great many were on the Conservative Benches in the House of Lords. I shall pass on the hon. Gentle...
Jack Straw | 487 c37 (Link to this contribution) I simply do not accept that. The movers of that amendment were very clear that the words meant somet...
Jack Straw | 487 c38 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that neither is the case—that work was already pretty substantial when I was in opposition...
Lord Beith | 487 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) Under the recently developed arrangements, the Select Committee on Justice has a specific role to pl...
Jack Straw | 487 c40 (Link to this contribution) Ensuring the effectiveness of sentencing will be an important role of the sentencing council. The ma...
Lord Garnier | 487 c40 (Link to this contribution) May I come at the problem from a slightly different angle? There are already magistrates who are not...
Jack Straw | 487 c40 (Link to this contribution) It is part of the same issue. New proposals, wonderful though they might be, could result in increas...
Jack Straw | 487 c39 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman has just heard something about it, but he was not listening to the vi...
Jack Straw | 487 c42 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman does nothing for his case with his gross exaggeration of the provisio...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c42 (Link to this contribution) With his characteristic skill, the Secretary of State reduces a seismic change in the relationship b...
Jack Straw | 487 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I want to make some progress, as I have already been on my feet for getting on for 50 minu...
Tony Wright | 487 c41 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Jack Straw | 487 c41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I have discussed that and, if we can find a way through it—he acknowledges pr...
Jack Straw | 487 c31 (Link to this contribution) In extreme cases—I can think of cases in which I myself signed public interest immunity certificates...
Jack Straw | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. ...
Jack Straw | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) I do not deny the temptation, but it is for that reason that under clause 11(1)(b):"““The Secretary ...
Jack Straw | 487 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) There were indeed such trials, but it is also the case that in such trials, some of the evidence tha...
David Davis | 487 c32 (Link to this contribution) I ask the right hon. Gentleman to come back to the issue raised by the Liberal spokesman, the hon. M...
Jack Straw | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) I need to make some progress. I shall give way to my two hon. Friends, but then I must move on.
Jack Straw | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) The families will be involved. We are talking about exclusion from only part of the inquest in very ...
Andrew Dismore | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) One assumes that the exclusion of the public will extend to the family and relatives of the deceased...
Joan Humble | 487 c33 (Link to this contribution) We all understand my right hon. Friend's problems with this issue, but I would like to return to ear...
Jack Straw | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) The Bill itself will ensure that there is a chief coroner, a charter for bereaved families and guida...
Emily Thornberry | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Jack Straw | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I will, in a second, but let me turn to the law on assisted suicide.
Emily Thornberry | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Jack Straw | 487 c34 (Link to this contribution) I did not entirely follow the hon. Gentleman's question, but I will ensure that it is answered in fu...
Jack Straw | 487 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that there is much to be said about the issue on all sides, and I have thought about it v...
Alun Michael | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) May I counsel the hon. and learned Gentleman, and his ally on the Liberal Benches, to avoid making o...
Alun Michael | 487 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a fair point. The problem has been not the aspirations of Ministers, but the fac...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c53 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman feels that the exemption is too wide and would therefore do damage, I encourag...
Geoffrey Cox | 487 c54 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend consider, as I do, that there is something anomalous in the Governme...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c54 (Link to this contribution) There are indeed anomalies, and they were discussed at some length when this matter appeared previou...
David Howarth | 487 c53 (Link to this contribution) Are not the hon. and learned Gentleman's comments proof of the point that some of us made when the m...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Lady for putting me right, and I apologise for any calumny—it was uni...
Lord Beith | 487 c49 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. and learned Gentleman noticed the increase of 300 prison places required for the other ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) I very much hope—indeed, I believe it—that by applying a bit of common sense, it is possible to avoi...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am entirely committed to the idea of reducing prison population in the long term. That is ver...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c45 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for finally teasing from the Secretary of State some engagement in this debate, which ...
Lord Bellingham | 487 c116-9 (Link to this contribution) First, I should declare an interest: I am a former barrister. We have had a well informed and const...
Richard Taylor | 487 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the last few speakers for being so commendably brief. I am sure that I am the only person he...
Lord Bellingham | 487 c119 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way as I am pressed for time. In 2004, the Law Commission published its report ““Pa...
Anne Main | 487 c119 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?
Anne Main | 487 c112 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?
James Brokenshire | 487 c111-2 (Link to this contribution) I want to confine my comments to the provisions on coroners, and to refer to the Data Protection Act...
Marsha Singh | 487 c113-5 (Link to this contribution) I would like to speak about a very narrow area of this legislation—the Bill makes the tiniest of ref...
James Brokenshire | 487 c112-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, unfortunately. The Bill seeks to justify some of the big databases that the Go...
Bridget Prentice | 487 c120 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) said, this has been a constructive and in...
Shona McIsaac | 487 c120 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. Sadly, I was not lucky enough to be called to speak in the de...
Lord Beith | 487 c89 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right to point out that all this takes place against a background of lack of confid...
Anne Main | 487 c89 (Link to this contribution) On the broader point about data sharing, apart from its being considered illiberal, there is public ...
Lord Beith | 487 c90 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is indeed, but it will not be achieved if people believe that the Bill will further open the...
Alun Michael | 487 c89 (Link to this contribution) The point in relation to Soham is that the systems were the biggest problem because they were not de...
Jenny Willott | 487 c92 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has raised the issue of local authority funding. Does he agree that an issu...
Bruce George | 487 c90-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly follow your advice on short speeches, Madam Deputy Speaker, although having listen...
Bruce George | 487 c92-4 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that intervention enormously. My constituency is in an area called the black country—a...
Lord Beith | 487 c94 (Link to this contribution) Unnecessary post-mortems are a key factor in some such delays. That also affects groups who have a p...
Bruce George | 487 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) I have talked at length to the Muslim burial society in my constituency, and wonderful organisations...
Geoffrey Cox | 487 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) The entrusting of information by an individual to the Government is an act of trust. It imposes upon...
Elfyn Llwyd | 487 c101-3 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) mentioned earlier, this is a Second Reading debate ...
Speaker | 487 c100 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have a little more than an hour to go before we embark on the wind-ups. May I urge hon. Me...
Joan Humble | 487 c97-100 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. We have had some well informed comments on a...
James Gray | 487 c108 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not, as two or three other people want ...
Alun Michael | 487 c108 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
James Gray | 487 c105-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) spoke a great deal of sense. I shall return to hi...
Brian Iddon | 487 c103-5 (Link to this contribution) One of my interests in the House is road safety. I served on the Committee that considered the Bill ...
Andrew Dismore | 487 c109-11 (Link to this contribution) That may be necessary. The question is whether there can still be an adequate and effective investig...
Andrew Dismore | 487 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) I will confine my remarks to issues that the Joint Committee on Human Rights has already reported on...
Jack Straw | 487 c109 (Link to this contribution) Aside from the fact that the coroner will be not just any old coroner but a High Court judge, does m...
David Howarth | 487 c65-70 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. It would be a far better procedure to put the whole question into the hands of the judic...
Speaker | 487 c70 (Link to this contribution) May I make a plea to Members? I estimate that there are approximately three hours left for this deba...
George Howarth | 487 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall try to follow your advice as closely as possible; I know th...
David Howarth | 487 c71 (Link to this contribution) My point about anonymous witnesses in investigations was not that there is not a problem; there is a...
Robert Goodwill | 487 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) When my father-in-law was in the police force, one of the jobs that he dreaded was being sent to som...
Madeleine Moon | 487 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) That confirms the statistic that only 13 per cent. of the sites found provided supportive informatio...
Paul Beresford | 487 c74-6 (Link to this contribution) I intend to be succinct, as requested. I am encouraged in that by my awareness that there are a plet...
George Howarth | 487 c71-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has at least gone part of the way with me in recognising the problem, but having ...
James Gray | 487 c79 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Lady's work as chairman of the all-party suicide prevention group. As an act of i...
Madeleine Moon | 487 c76-9 (Link to this contribution) I share many of the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford) about...
Lord Beith | 487 c85 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Justice Committee will carry out just the kind of post-legislative scrutiny to which...
James Gray | 487 c85 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that military inquests are so important because the coroner migh...
Lord Beith | 487 c83 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the concern of quite a few people in the relevant professions that...
David Kidney | 487 c83-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do recognise that point. One of my wishes for the new relationship that will evolve between c...
David Kidney | 487 c81-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr. Goodwill), who succinctly mad...
Lord Beith | 487 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge said, we have taken one step forward by getting away from...
Jack Straw | 487 c88 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and I listened with care to what he said. On his immediat...
Lord Beith | 487 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a member of the Justice Committee and he knows that we have discussed this iss...
Andrew Turner | 487 c87 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has mentioned that point. I am very concerned about the desi...
Lord Beith | 487 c85-7 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. I do not think that holding such inquests in secret is act...
Alun Michael | 487 c57 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for underlining that point. What I want to do is raise it in t...
John Bercow | 487 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that what we need to do in the debate is get away from the slightly abstract, arcane and, da...
Jeremy Corbyn | 487 c61 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the seriousness of this part of the Bill. In his ...
David Howarth | 487 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from ““That”” to the end of the Question and add:"““this Ho...
Alun Michael | 487 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with me about how the provisions of proposed new section 50A(4) apply?...
David Howarth | 487 c64 (Link to this contribution) That is the inherent problem with data sharing—it increases the risks of things going wrong, not nec...
David Heath | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very strong case. Does he agree that even if any malevolent intent on the...
David Howarth | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important point that goes back to debates on other Bills that create such broad power...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c63 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the argument comes back to the central point that the measure...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c65 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one thing that the Government could have considered, but did not,...
David Howarth | 487 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important point, and I hope that the Government and the usual channels are listening....
John McDonnell | 487 c64 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to cite a potential parliamentary tactic, in that those measures are at ...
Speaker | 487 c122 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Bridget Prentice | 487 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if my right hon. Friend would allow me to move on. My hon. Friend the Member fo...
Bridget Prentice | 487 c122 (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. and learned Gentleman that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State spoke for n...
Bridget Prentice | 487 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) A number of Members have raised that issue as well as my hon. Friend. We will reflect on it and we w...
David Heath | 487 c42 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Paul Beresford | 487 c36 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Alun Michael | 487 c58-60 (Link to this contribution) I take on board the hon. Gentleman's point, and that is why there must be swift and effective action...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c29 (Link to this contribution) We entirely welcome the list of proposals that the Justice Secretary has just read out. However, he ...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c44 (Link to this contribution) My experience of one or two examples of failures to share data, such as that which was highlighted i...
Maria Eagle | 487 c52 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. and learned Gentleman looks at what was said on that occasion—it was me who said it—he w...
Dominic Grieve | 487 c45 (Link to this contribution) I probably ought to make some progress, but shall I give way to the hon. Lady before I do so.
Lord Garnier | 487 c122 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt the Minister for too long, as it is very late, but the Bill also contains...
Subjects
Children Disclosure of information Data protection Bail Administration of justice Armed forces Death Certification Coroners Juries Electronic surveillance Homosexuality Evidence ICT Incitement Homicide Health professions Internet Discrimination Ethnic groups Freedom of expression Personal records Prisons Mental capacity Pornography Offences against children Sentencing Registration Young people Security Witnesses Victims Technology Suicide Sentencing Council for England and Wales Information sharing
Legislation
Coroners and Justice Bill 2008-09
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